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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ish who wrote (111694)8/16/2003 12:44:34 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
>>So we should do what? << Military (US, UK, German, French, generic) have been trained to defend & attack, to win battles and wars. It's not their vocation, whatever flexibility there is in their professional approach, to combat lawlessness and statelessness. To play the cops and service guys - they sure can do it, but... -. What's needed now in Iraq (my opinion, Im not cutting and pasting somebody else's) is a professional, multinational, not-exclusively-American task force, partly police, partly paralegal, partly infrastructure&hardware, on top of the military already there.

Re reaping the profits etc - it will cost us all dearly first. But without that, it will be even costlier.

Re comparing this situation to Germany in 1945 and later: to quote Maurice, now is 60 years later. Let's push & shift a paradigm or two - out of the way...
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